Professor Burkhauser has spent his career investigating how public policies affect the economic behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations such as those with disabilities, the poor, and the aged. He teaches policy analysis and economics at Cornell University, where he is also the co-principal investigator of the Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities. At AEI, Professor Burkhauser is working on a forthcoming monograph on U.S. disability insurance policy.

-Chairman, 1998-2005; Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis, 1998-present; Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

-Research professor, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, 2000-present

-Visiting scholar, Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, 1988; visiting professor, The European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 1996; visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2000; visiting fellow, Australia National University, Department of Economics, 2003

-Professor of economics, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 1990-1998

-Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social

Sciences, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, 1990-1991

-Assistant professor, 1979-1982; associate professor, 1982-1985; professor, 1985-1990, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

-Visiting scholar of economics, University of Wisconsin, 1984-1985

-Consultant, Urban Institute, 1978-1981; United Nations in Panama, 1983-1984; Research Triangle Institute, 1984-1985

-Research associate, Institute for Poverty Research, University of Wisconsin, 1977-1979

-Economist, Office of Policy Evaluation/Income Security, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1976-1977

-Research assistant, University of Chicago, 1973-1976

-Mathematics teacher trainer, Peace Corps, Kingston, Jamaica, 1970-1972

-Mathematics teacher, Trenton High School, New Jersey, 1969-1970

Education

Ph.D., economics, University of Chicago

M.A., economics, Rutgers University

B.A., economics, St. Vincent College

 

Articles and Short Publications

Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality Using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data Curing the Dutch Disease: Lessons for United States Disability Policy The Transformation in Who is Expected to Work in the United States and How it Changed the Lives of Single Mothers and People with Disabilities

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Events

The Myth of the Declining Middle Class Gaining Ground: New Reforms from Old Europe